Mr. F. Moore on some imperfectly known species of Birds. 369 



1 inch shorter ; bill to frontal plumes y^ths, to gape y^^hs ; and 

 tarse ^ths of an inch. ijirvui; !.iii> jaiudw 



M(f^' China. In the collection of John Gouldfifisijtui <Arjjh fegniw 

 Jd;^ Orites (?) NiVEOGULARis, Gonld, MS: ^^^^^ mmmmq ^lU V 

 Forehead white, passing to buff-brown on the back of the heaq^-^ 

 nape, and fore-part of the back, and thence to the tail grey, tinged,^, 

 with isabelline on the rump ; lores, over the eyes and ear-covertaj 

 black, passing into the brown on the nape ; ear-coverts blackish^ 

 anteriorly and brownish-buff posteriorly, and somewhat stripe^-^ 

 longitudinally with white; base of lower mandible, chin, throa^^j 

 fore-part of breast, and sides of the neck to the nape behind the ear-^!^ 

 coverts snowy -vs^hite, and contrasting with a brownish band which 

 runs from the nape across the middle of the breast ; the lower part of 

 the breast with the abdomen pale pinky -isabelline passing to whiter,^ 

 in the middle of the belly : wings brown, margined with greyish- 

 white, coverts and speculars blackish: tail dusky -black, margined 

 externally with greyish-white, its outermost feathers white on the 

 outer web. Bill black, longish, and slender s^^ in 0,iouschisio^^r 

 Hodgson; feet yellowish. p^ ,,'0^1 - > fi 



Length 4^ inches; of wing 2^; tail 2fths, Its onter'most feather., 

 -i- inch shorter ; bill to frontal plumes jV^^ to yo^^s ; tarse xgl^hi. 

 of an inch. ^ F'^^^^^^ . ,{ ob^^'j ^mnoi'-garRoiioli 



^aS. N. India. In -the collection of John Gould,TEsq.^>i^H -- y^g[ 

 Remark. — These three new species, together with O. erythr4iiii 

 cephalus, Vigors, and O.jouschistoSy Hodgs., will, I believe, upo%{jt 

 further examination, prove to form two separate divisions, distinctM 

 from the genus Orites ; the species named erythrocephalus, leucor^^^ 

 genys, and glaucogularis forming one division, and jouschistos witi^fn 

 niveogularis the secou^j^^^j. ^^^ Xiiiioi^ OiU moii lasi 1 1 isiiji :ji bm 

 ;>:<ifTaioo 21 bfTjT ,'■)'> rrnirl'^f'j iBTSl'if Iffim.» r HJm fled 

 Notice of some imperfectly-known species of Birdi^w 



CONTAINED IN THE MuSEUM OF THE HON. EaST InDIA CoM- '' 



PANY. By Frederic Moore. 



Fam. MERULiDiE, Vigors. 

 Subfam. Brachypodina, Swainson. xiux^ .- 



%fd-9frOenus Ixulus, Hodgson, P. Z. S. (1845) p. 23.'^ < '-^roD 



l^'.^IxfULUS OCCIPITALIS, Blyth. 'i^^ 



Siva occipitalis, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 937. (1844.) .foo 

 Ixulus occipitalis^ Blyth, J, A. S. Beng. xiv. p, 552. xvi, p,;i44>8<^fl8i 

 Cat. B. Mus. x\. S. Beng., p. 100. -nU ; ^nmv^ 



Hab. Sikim, Nepal. (No. 955, Hodgson's Catalogue.) ' mU 



" Colonr dull brownish olive-green above, the shafts of the dorsafr/p 

 and scapular feathers pale ; below much lighter and rufescent, the 

 throat whitish, the feathers of the fore-neck having dark shafts : 

 crown, nape, and lower tail-coverts ferruginous-brown, which also 

 Am. ^ Mag. N, Hist._ Ser. 2. Vol. xvi. 25 



